I’m working from home currently so loads of time for podcasts.
Verneys podcasts talk some amount of rubber imo.
His Hurling one this week focused more on John Mullanes u15 Camogie team at the national feile than it did on Tipp v Galway. He goes out of his way not to mention anything positive about the premier county.
The football one begins with approximately 15 minutes ranting by Pat split season Spillane rather than talking about the actual fucking football.
Jamie Wall and Liam Rushe were a decent listen on the free Second Captains podcast this week. Pat Spillane keeps trying and failing to direct conversations towards Sligo matches. I enjoyed Philly Mac’s articles in the paper but he doesn’t seem overly knowledgable on the Indo podcast and quite bitter towards Kerry/Aidan O’ Shea for a lad who regularly beat both during his career. The Indo podcast is better when it’s actual GAA journalists like Conor McKeon.
The majority of GAA podcasts is spent on general topics like split season or whether there should be a replay for the Munster final instead of focusing on actual specifics or insights about the game. Enda mcginley seems to be one of the few outliers in this regard.
There is an incredible amount of GAA content out there at the moment and its cheap to be honest. I enjoy most of them and the various versions of the analysis. The Examiner football podcast is the best of them I think. I enjoy the OTB football one also. Woolly is the best of the hurling ones apart from when Brady appears on the Maroon & White pod.
I’m mad into podcasts when Dublin are winning. Media blackout when they lose.
Cyril Farrell is my favourite analyst. His love of the game and his overall soundness always shines through. Wooly is also a good hurling presenter in a Bill o Herlihy kind of way. He doesn’t pretend to know more than he does and hence asks good questions. He’s still a bit of a cunt mind.